An enormous amount of plastic is being washed away in the sea every year and research has showcased that we do not know the whereabouts of the extensive part of it is. The abrasive intensity of ocean smash these bottles, cigarette lighters and slices of packaging down into minute smattering that are strenuous to track, but scientists have devised a technique that could divulge their location in form of a glimmering fluorescent dye.

Micro plastics can estimate as minute as the width of a human hair, and one latest research approximated there to be some place in the middle of 93,000 and 236,000 metric tons of plastic floating around on the facade of the ocean.

The scientists elucidate that there is about one percent of that stuff in the ocean, so where is the remainder of it? Erik van Sebille, the lead author on that study, said that it’s something like astronomers dispensing with the unexplained of dark matter.

He also said that the amount of plastic trapped on various natural environments needs to be determined, for example, on the sea floor, mangrove forests and in the stomachs of marine animals and entity. We require that to be found out otherwise we will not know where marine life connects with the plastics so we are also unaware about where to clean up.

Some scientists are researching the chemicals within the plastics that are being disseminated into the water as the materials are damaged. These could be consumed by the amphibians in turn calling out for their safety and also the safety of human beings who in turn imbibe them.